Catherine Frieman

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People need to stop imagining that eugenics is just about Nazis, Hitler and Nazi Germany. Eugenics was born in the UK, and rapidly imported to the US, where both positive and negative eugenics made rapid inroads into law and policy on disability, medicine, marriage, immigration and more.

Imperial Boomerang and why things are escalating in the US

Newgrange passage tomb: A round structure in a field, with white stone walls and grass on top.

Was Newgrange the tomb of a Neolithic Irish king? 🏺 #Archaeology
Evidence for incest led to suggestions of a social elite in later Neolithic Ireland, but lack of evidence for any sort of 'royal hierarchy' paints a more complex picture.

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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A new editorial team for Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog We are very excited to have been chosen as the new editors for Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (PPS), the flagship journal of the Prehistoric Society. The journal has a long tradition of publis...

Feel very privileged to be part of this new dream team of editors for Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. We've got a new editorial board, a more rigorous approval process, and we're working on some exciting papers which will be in a new look, new format journal! @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

This looks like the publicity shot for a short-lived BBC sitcom from 1994.

very important:

Saddle up!

Domesticated horses introduced to Iberia around 1800 BC but wild horses derived from Palaeolithic populations still persist until around 500 BC.

ANU academics call for clarity about why the axe targets some but not others Eight lecturers are competing for six jobs.

“There is no doubt the process of change has caused damage — and perhaps lasting damage.”

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/903117...

Caving 16,000 Years Ago: Pleistocene Human Movement Within the Decorated Cave of Etxeberri, Western Pyrenees (France) This study examines human interaction with deep subterranean environments during the Pleistocene, focusing on the Etxeberri Cave. These 16,000 year old expeditions were physically demanding, risky,...

🧪New from our postdoc @inakiintxaurbe.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
How did Magdalenian people access deep cave art zones 16 000y ago? Using GIS & geomatics, this study reconstructs the risky subterranean routes into Etxeberri Cave (Pyrenees) doi.org/10.1080/0093...

College towns are company towns, y’all — and that isn’t just true of flagships and Ivys and such.

Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025…

We are so close to reaching our target of 2500 signatures on this petition calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates! If you care about equity in higher education and want the BA to be affordable and accessible for *all* students, please sign! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

Figure 1 from Adapa et al. 2025, Jerash mass grave site in the context of the First Pandemic. There are three images: A) a map of western Eurasia and North Africa, showing sites where plague aDNA has already been retrieved; B) a diagram of the Jerash hippodrome, where the bodies were found; and C) a photograph of one of the chambers.

Newest addition to the #JustinianicPlague bibliography: Adapa et al., "Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic," www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/16.... This is a milestone achievement b/c it is the first Y. pestis aDNA to be recovered from the Islamic Mediterranean, in this case, Jerash.

It’s weird that we all accepted “ghosting” means vanishing to avoid breaking up with someone, when gothic horror tells us ghosts do the exact opposite!

The dark cruelty of a contrarian small press that has pledged to print history "as is" defending its decision to remove the secret code this guy used to document his murders from his diaries as "unprintable", and so censoring the destruction of a people by editing history, is just next level.

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Education requires relationships. Not just information delivered to people's eyeballs.

... also maybe the smart part

he is 6 kilos of fluff and strong opinions, chief amongst them that he is in charge of me and i should do as he says

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships: Expressions of interest can be submitted until 31 October 2025.

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

i saw this movie three times in cinema in large part because of how hard this line made me laugh

*named

A fluffy ginger cat in loaf with one front paw extended. He's on a white doona. He's staring into the camera.

I'm finding this particularly funny because I'm from Boston (though obvs not there any longer) and my cat is mashed gambit.

Behold! Masshole-descendent Gambit

Australian Media Faces Existential Crisis After Realising This Whole Free Palestine Thing Might Extend Well Beyond University Lawns And Instagram CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After years of sitting on the fence and looking the other way, the Australian media is today reckoning with the fact that showing basic sympathy towards the starving ...

www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorize...

This is better coverage than we get on ABC

@abcnewsbot.bsky.social

Concerns protest could ‘impede Sydney drivers’ solved by getting basically the whole city at the protest

"Turns out roughly a hundred thousand people wanted to cross the bridge at the time of the march" said one organiser

Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...

I remember once astonishing a colleague’s husband when he naively asked why we (historians) couldn’t just look something up on the internet and we had to explain that WE are the ones who find the stuff and add it to the internet

Coffee bean stud searrings.

Hair clip that looks like half a pistachio macaron.

Laser cut wood landscape with mountains, trees and a cabin.

Earrings that look like guillotines

Another day of shameless self promotion! I just uploaded a whole bunch of things - as well as refilling others. I can't even describe it all, you just gotta check it out for yourself? Over 500 different items in stock including earrings, pins, keychains, etc.

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#bsnm #nightmarket

i'm definitely the one meowing back

If I may put on my ex-academic hat today, I have a new peer-reviewed article out in the J of Mediterranean Archaeology! We did an mtDNA analysis of people buried at Gabii over the span of about a millennium. 🏺🧪